A Short History of the World

Edited by George Sandulescu and Lidia Vianu

Contemporary Literature Press is publishing a book about the past, written by a visionary writer who, along with Jules Verne, is considered to be the father of science fiction.
H. G. Wells's Short History of the World was published in 1922, the peak year of Modernismthe year when James Joyce's Ulyssses and T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land appeared. Its author was a novelist who also wrote books about the future, such as The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, The First Men in the Moon. Partly, the scientific and technical future imagined by Wells at the beginnig of the 20th Century has already happened.
This clearly written and amply illustrated book provides both teachers and students with possible stories about life on earth. Whether these stories follow one another logically, whether evolution is the key word, the readers will decide for themselves. One thing is certain: Wells's book is bound to improve the English of all the students who decide to read it.

Lidia Vianu

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